different between conscious vs spirt

English

Etymology

From Latin c?nscius, itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + sc?re (“to know”) + -us.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: /k?n?sh?s/ IPA^(key): /?k?n.??s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n.??s/, /?k?nt??s/

Adjective

conscious (comparative more conscious, superlative most conscious)

2. Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.

3. Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
   • 1999, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:

     The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come.  Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

4. Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
   • Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.

5. Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
   • 1907, Brigham Henry Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, volume 1, page 43:

     He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.
6. Known or felt personally, internally by a person.

   conscious guilt

7. Self-conscious.
   • 1616—1650, Richard Crashaw:

     The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

Antonyms

• asleep
• unaware
• unconscious

Derived terms

Related terms

• conscience

Translations

Noun

conscious (plural consciouses)

1. The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

English

Verb

spirt (third-person singular simple present spirts, present participle spirting, simple past and past participle spirted)

1. Archaic spelling of spurt.

Noun

spirt (plural spirts)

1. Archaic spelling of spurt.

References

“spirt” in The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005

Anagrams

• Strip, TRIPS, sprit, stirp, strip, trips

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin spiritus.

Noun

spirt m (plural spirts)

1. spirit

Related terms

• spirtât
• spirtôs
• spirtuâl
• Spirtussant

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin spiritus.

Noun

spirt m (plural [please provide])

1. spirit

Related terms

• spiert

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spi??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Verb

spirt

1. past participle of spire

Romanian

Etymology

From Russian ????? (spirt), from English spirit, from Latin sp?ritus.

Noun

spirt n (uncountable)

1. alcohol, spirit, particularly rubbing alcohol

Declension

Further reading

• spirt in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)